From a broken alumni database to a thriving alumni community launch-ready in two weeks.
Independent schools have decades of alumni data that's incomplete, stale, and invisible to the community it's meant to serve. Studiously enriches that data and gets your alumni directory launch-ready — completely — in fourteen days. From there, we work alongside your team to plan the rollout and introduce the platform to your community on your timeline.
The starting point
See the before state
What every independent school alumni database actually looks like
Schools maintain alumni records in Raiser's Edge NXT, but the data accumulated over decades is riddled with gaps — making it nearly impossible to engage, connect, or leverage the community. It's the core problem no alumni engagement platform has solved — until now.
Missing career information
Current employer, title, and work history are blank for the majority of alumni — often 60–80% of records.
Stale and bounced emails
Email addresses go stale as alumni change jobs or providers. Large portions of lists bounce before they're ever read.
No LinkedIn connections
LinkedIn URLs are virtually never present in school databases, making it impossible to verify or enrich records.
No searchable directory
Without a live directory, students and alumni have no way to find and connect with each other — even when the data exists.
Missing college data
For many alumni, what college they attended after your school is completely absent — a huge gap for engagement and fundraising.
No location intelligence
Current city and geographic data are outdated or entirely missing, making regional outreach and event planning a guessing game.
And when someone actually wants to connect? It breaks down.
Every student-alumni or alumni-alumni introduction is a manual, multi-step process — relying entirely on your alumni director to hunt through a stale database, cold-ask for permission, and broker one connection at a time.
Tells their college counselor they're interested in a specific school — or goes directly to the alumni office wanting to speak with someone in a particular industry.
Suggests the student speak with an alumnus and reaches out to the alumni office directly to ask them to find someone.
Manually searches Raiser's Edge NXT — or switches to LinkedIn — trying to find a matching alumnus. Most records have no career data at all. 30–60 minutes of manual searching.
Finds a possible match and cold-emails them asking if they're willing to have their contact information shared with a student. Then waits.
Responds and says yes.
Manually introduces the student and alumnus over email. Connection finally happens.
Reaches out to the alumni office asking to connect with other alumni in their industry or city.
Searches the stale database or LinkedIn to find matching alumni — the same manual hunt as the student path. Repeat every time someone asks.
Asks the target alumnus for permission, waits for a reply, then brokers the introduction manually.
Searches for fellow alumni directly on LinkedIn. Finds them without the school's involvement.
Connect and start a conversation — entirely outside your school's platform.
How Studiously gets your alumni directory launch-ready in two weeks
A complete, end-to-end process — from your first data sync to a launch-ready alumni directory with thousands of enriched, verified profiles, ready to roll out to your community on your timeline.
We connect to your alumni data — however it lives
We integrate directly with Raiser's Edge NXT and Veracross, pulling your alumni records — names, class years, and contact fields — straight into the Studiously pipeline. If your school prefers to start with a CSV export instead, we support that too. No format is off the table.
We fill the gaps — completely
For every alumni in your database, we research and verify their current career information: where they work today, their full work history, current title, LinkedIn URL, undergraduate college (and graduate schools), current city, and a brief professional bio. Data that's been missing for decades, filled in days.
* We project to enhance approximately 50% of all alumni records. Results vary based on the availability of each alumnus's baseline information.
Your alumni directory is launch-ready.
Using the enriched data, we build a beautiful, searchable alumni directory — accessible only to your school's constituents. Students and alumni can search by name, industry, class year, college, location, or in plain natural language. Every profile shows only non-sensitive information: employer, title, college, location, LinkedIn, and a brief bio. Email addresses are never visible.
We work alongside your team to plan the rollout
Before a single constituent sees the directory, we sit down with your team to get it right. That means reviewing the directory together, drafting constituent communications, and building a launch plan that fits your school's calendar — whether that's the start of a new semester, a key alumni event, or a moment your advancement team chooses. Nothing goes out until you're ready.
Constituents connect with each other — no manual brokering required
That six-step, five-day process your alumni director used to manage one connection at a time? It's gone. Students and alumni search the directory themselves and reach out directly. Messages land in the recipient's email inbox — no account, no login, just reply. Alumni can connect with fellow alumni the same way, and the school is part of every interaction rather than being bypassed entirely.
Your advancement team sees everything
The advancement and alumni relations team gets a full visualization of their community — how many alumni are in each industry, region, college type, and class year. Plus quantitative and qualitative analytics on the connections being made: who's reaching out, who's responding, and what industries students are most eager to explore.
Enriched data syncs back into your database
All the enriched career data — employers, titles, LinkedIn URLs, colleges, locations — goes back where it came from. For Raiser's Edge NXT schools, this is a continuous bidirectional sync. For Veracross schools and those that started with a CSV, we deliver a clean enriched file back. Either way, the work we do doesn't just power the directory — it permanently improves the database your entire advancement team relies on.
What your school gets: a launch-ready alumni directory in 14 days
A completely transformed alumni engagement infrastructure — built on your existing Raiser's Edge NXT data, launch-ready within two weeks and rolled out to your community on your timeline.
A launch-ready alumni directory
Thousands of verified alumni profiles, searchable and ready to introduce to your community on your timeline.
Rich career data
Employer, title, work history, LinkedIn, colleges, location, and bio — filled in for alumni who've been blank for years.
Private, frictionless connections
Students reach alumni through the platform. Alumni reply from their inbox. No accounts, no friction, no exposed emails.
Full community analytics
Visualize your alumni community by industry, region, college, and class year — and track every connection being made.
Enriched Raiser's Edge records
Every enriched field syncs back into your NXT database. Your CRM leaves the engagement better than it found it.
Launch-ready in 14 days
From first sync to a fully built, enriched directory — the entire setup in two weeks. Rollout happens on your school's timeline, with our support.
Alumni directory privacy: legally sound by design
Studiously is built around a clear legal and ethical distinction that exists in every state — the difference between non-sensitive and sensitive information — so your alumni directory is fully compliant from day one.
No law prohibits building an alumni directory with non-sensitive information
There is no statute — federal or state — that requires explicit alumni consent to publish a directory containing only non-sensitive, publicly available career information. The directory is digitally private, accessible only to your school's constituents, and every alumnus has a one-click opt-out. The model is both defensible and standard practice for educational institutions.
Your database gets better — automatically
Every piece of data Studiously enriches — employer, title, LinkedIn, college, location — syncs back into your records automatically. For schools on Raiser's Edge NXT, this is a continuous bidirectional sync. For Veracross schools and those that started with a CSV export, we deliver a clean, enriched file back to you. Either way, your team ends up with a better database than they started with.
Frequently asked questions
Everything schools ask before getting started.
Alumni data enrichment fills in the career information missing from your existing database. For most independent schools, 60–80% of alumni records in Raiser's Edge NXT have blank fields for employer, title, LinkedIn URL, college attended, and location. Studiously takes each alumnus and researches their current career profile — verifying employer, title, work history, LinkedIn URL, undergraduate and graduate schools, current city, and a professional bio — and adds it to their record. The result: a fully enriched alumni database and a directory ready to launch.
Yes — there is no federal or state law requiring explicit alumni consent for a directory of non-sensitive information. Non-sensitive information — like where someone works, their job title, the college they attended, and their general location — is publicly available and cannot reasonably be expected to be private. Studiously displays only this type of information, keeps all contact details entirely private, restricts directory access to your school's constituents only, and gives every alumnus a one-click opt-out. The model is both legally defensible and standard practice for educational institutions.
From first sync to a launch-ready alumni directory: 14 days. Days 1–2 are the data sync and audit. Days 3–8 are alumni data enrichment. Days 9–11 are directory build and launch. From there, we partner with your team on rollout strategy, constituent communications, and a go-live timeline that works for your school.
No — alumni never need to create an account, download an app, or log in to anything. When a student sends a connection request through Studiously, the message lands directly in the alumnus's personal email inbox. The alumnus just hits reply. Studiously's custom email routing keeps both parties' contact information completely private while enabling a direct, real conversation. No platform friction means dramatically higher response rates.
Yes — all enriched career data syncs automatically back into your Raiser's Edge NXT records. Employer, title, LinkedIn URL, college, and location are all written back. Your CRM becomes a continuously improving database rather than a static snapshot — giving your advancement team better data for every campaign, giving ask, and alumni outreach.
No — Studiously supports both student-to-alumni and alumni-to-alumni connections through the platform. Any constituent can search the directory and reach out. Alumni can connect with fellow alumni the same way a student connects with an alum — directly, privately, and without the school manually brokering each introduction.
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